The League of Lady Wrestlers is strong, independent and completely disgusting

BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS Sitting on top of a blue garbage can, Garbage Face clenches her eyes and purses her mouth in concentration — and a little constipation — as she pretends to take a shit in the middle of the…

Civil War is leaving the door open for the liberation of women in Syria

BY: AIDAN MACNAB Aylan Kurdi was the two-year-old boy whose corpse, photographed washed up on a Turkish beach, shook the world. Sympathy for his tragic end ignited the globe. Refugees had been asphyxiating in crates, drowning in the Mediterranean, starving…

For the first time in American history more women are graduating from college than men

BY: JESSICA BEUKER In 1940, under five per cent of the U.S. population held a bachelor’s degree. Of the population that did, men were much more likely to have a college education than women. In fact, it would have taken…

Photos reveal a depressing truth when men are Photoshopped out of World institutions

 BY: JESSICA BEUKER In the past 20 years the percentage of women in parliament has almost doubled. The bad news is that even doubled, that number sits at a meagre 22 per cent. It’s a number that leaves me disheartened,…

They told me to go after my dream— too bad I wanted to be a female Hollywood director

BY: ANGIE PICCIRILLO When you walk the hallways of any elementary or middle school, the walls are lined with inspirational posters pushing kids towards higher education, and reminding them to “follow your dreams.” The pessimist in me is somewhat sad…

Let’s Put Canadian Women On Bank Notes Already

BY: SINEAD MULHERN It’s 2014 and the Bank of Canada has yet to print a Canadian woman’s face on any of our country’s bank notes. In 2011, the Bank of Canada put The Famous Five and activist Therese Casgrain on the…